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Your Inside Track to Arizona PoliticsWed, 13 Dec 2017 22:55:06 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: donnagratehousehttp://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2013/10/04/arizona-campaign-finance-laws-could-restore-clout-of-business-community/comment-page-1/#comment-121664
Tue, 08 Oct 2013 20:06:05 +0000http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=63700#comment-121664These business elitists could possibly get away with their “Clean Elections ruined everything!” story if one pretends the rest of the country doesn’t exist. How is it that in states with no public financing whatsoever they are electing the same kind of right wing hardliner Arizona elects and passing all kinds of lunatic legislation in those states? Michele Bachmann made it all the way from the MN state legislature to Congress to briefly being taken seriously as a Presidential candidate without ever receiving one cent of public campaign financing. Of course, she’s a very reliable pro-business vote.

The elites are using Clean Elections to absolve themselves of their own culpability in where we are today. This began 40 years ago with the Southern Strategy and the rise of the Religious Right and business leaders were an integral part of all of it.

“As this editorial notes, the Census provides facts, figures and information on more than just population. Census surveys provide half of the info which the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses to tabulate the monthly unemployment numbers. Other surveys provide a wealth of info on crime, income, spending, transportation, housing, schools, medical care, hospitals…the list goes on. We all know that there are certain politicians who prefer their own “facts” to actual facts. Can it be that this accounts for some of the opposition to fully funding Census operations?”

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Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:44:15 +0000http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=63700#comment-121503The Prisons / Corrections and mass industrial prison complex comprise over ONE BILLION dollars of the state budget. Who’s buying the lawmakers and top offiicials of the state? Who’s investigating for conflict of interest as Arizona’s business model is the prison business? This is the peoples’ problem.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — “Private prison giant Corrections Corp. of America will leave Idaho after more than a decade marked by scandal and lawsuits surrounding its operation of the state’s largest prison.

The Nashville, Tenn.-based company will not bid on the next contract to run the Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise, CCA Vice President Brad Regens said in a letter Thursday to the Department of Corrections.

The decision came as Idaho State Police, aided by a forensic auditing firm, is investigating allegations of possible contract fraud and falsified staffing reports involving CCA.

A federal judge also has held CCA in contempt of court for failing to abide by the terms of a settlement agreement reached with inmates in a lawsuit claiming high rates of violence and chronic understaffing at the prison.” continued…